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1 November 2000 Life Cycle and Description of Amblyosporacamposi n. sp. (Microsporidia: Amblyosporidae) in the Mosquito Culex renatoi (Diptera, Culicidae) and the Copepod Paracyclops fimbriatus fimbriatus (Copepoda, Cyclopidae)
MARIA V. MICIELI, JUAN J. GARCIA, JAMES J. BECNEL
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Abstract

The life cycle of Amblyospora camposi n. sp. is described from the mosquito Culex renatoi and the copepod Paracyclops fimbriatus fimbriatus collected in the leaf axils of the plant Eryngium cabrerae in Argentina. Meiospores of A. camposi (5.8 × 4.1 μm) were infectious per os to female adults of the copepod P. f. fimbriatus. All developmental stages in the copepod had unpaired nuclei, with sporulation involving the formation of a sub-persistent, sporontogenic, interfacial envelope and the production of a second type of uninucleate spore. These spores, formed in the ovaries of P. f. fimbriatus, were large, pyriform, and measured 10.70 × 3.85 μm. When ingested they infected C. renatoi larvae to initiate a sequence that involves schizogony and gametogony and ends with plasmogamy and nuclear association to form diplokaryotic meronts. Oblong ovate binucleate spores (7.86 × 2.96 μm) are formed in the adult mosquito and are responsible for vertical transmission to the filial generation. This is the first report of an Amblyospora species from a mosquito that inhabits the small-water bodies held in parts of terresterial plants (phytotelmata).

MARIA V. MICIELI, JUAN J. GARCIA, and JAMES J. BECNEL "Life Cycle and Description of Amblyosporacamposi n. sp. (Microsporidia: Amblyosporidae) in the Mosquito Culex renatoi (Diptera, Culicidae) and the Copepod Paracyclops fimbriatus fimbriatus (Copepoda, Cyclopidae)," The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 47(6), 575-580, (1 November 2000). https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1550-7408.2000.tb00092.x
Received: 13 April 2000; Accepted: 30 July 2000; Published: 1 November 2000
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KEYWORDS
Eryngium cabrerae
host specificity
phytotelmata
taxonomy
ultrastructure
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